Optical bistability under nonresonant excitation in spinor polariton condensates
Optical bistability under nonresonant excitation in spinor polariton condensates
We realise bistability in the spinor of polariton condensates under non-resonant optical excitation and in the absence of biasing external fields. Numerical modelling of the system using the GinzburgLandau equation with an internal Josephson coupling between the two spin components of the condensate qualitatively describes the experimental observations. We demonstrate that polariton spin bistability strongly depends on the condensate’s overlap with the exciton reservoir by tuning the excitation geometry and sample temperature. We obtain non-collapsing bistability hysteresis loops for a record range of sweep times, [10µs, 1s], offering a promising route to spin switches and spin memory elements.
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Pickup, Lucinda
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Savvidis, P G
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Berloff, Natalia G.
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Lagoudakis, Pavlos
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1 June 2018
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Kalinin, Kirill
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Askitopoulos, Alexis Marcel
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Hatzopoulos, Zacharias
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Savvidis, P G
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Berloff, Natalia G.
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Lagoudakis, Pavlos
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Pickup, Lucinda, Kalinin, Kirill, Askitopoulos, Alexis Marcel, Hatzopoulos, Zacharias, Savvidis, P G, Berloff, Natalia G. and Lagoudakis, Pavlos
(2018)
Optical bistability under nonresonant excitation in spinor polariton condensates.
Physical Review Letters, 120 (22), , [225301].
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.225301).
Abstract
We realise bistability in the spinor of polariton condensates under non-resonant optical excitation and in the absence of biasing external fields. Numerical modelling of the system using the GinzburgLandau equation with an internal Josephson coupling between the two spin components of the condensate qualitatively describes the experimental observations. We demonstrate that polariton spin bistability strongly depends on the condensate’s overlap with the exciton reservoir by tuning the excitation geometry and sample temperature. We obtain non-collapsing bistability hysteresis loops for a record range of sweep times, [10µs, 1s], offering a promising route to spin switches and spin memory elements.
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Optical bistability under nonresonant excitation in spinor polariton
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 March 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 30 May 2018
Published date: 1 June 2018
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/419704
ISSN: 1079-7114
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Lucinda Pickup
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Kirill Kalinin
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Alexis Marcel Askitopoulos
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Zacharias Hatzopoulos
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P G Savvidis
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Natalia G. Berloff
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Pavlos Lagoudakis
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